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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

February 25, 2021 - Dog and Stranger

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Salem Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Politics

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dennis gave a talk to his grandson’s elementary school class. It was a challenge, even for a practiced public speaker… Coca-Cola wants its employees to be “less white.”… Dennis talks to Jill Simonian, Director of Outreach for PragerU’s PREP initiative (PragerU Resources for Educators and Parents). She also presents this week’s PragerU video “What Are Your Kids Learning in School?”

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Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here. One reason that I took off yesterday, because I'm from

0:41.4

belief that everybody has that you have to fix them days off, is I spoke to my grandchild's

0:48.3

5th grade class, 10-year-old. He's in Miami and they had me speak to them. I was on a big monitor,

1:02.0

big screen in the classroom. They were all wearing masks and socially distancing, but they were in class.

1:10.9

It's sort of surreal the whole thing, and I want to tell you something. I know you'll find

1:21.5

of interest, so I have given literally thousands of lectures. That, my friends, is a lot of lectures.

1:31.6

And people ask me, are you nervous before you speak often? It's through a thousand people.

1:38.0

And I'm not, but my body or my mind is aware that I have to be ready. It's like, is a baseball player

1:48.0

nervous every time he gets up to the plate? No, but I assume no, unless he thinks the picture

1:55.4

is aiming for his head. But his body gets ready for it. But the only point I wish to make is,

2:06.2

while I wasn't nervous, I was concerned. How do you keep a classroom of 10-year-olds interested?

2:20.7

My friends, that is up there with swimming the English Channel.

2:27.2

Let me continue. Keeping a classroom of 10-year-olds interested on screen, not live, and while they're

2:43.6

wearing masks. Anyway, I had to do, I had to achieve this accomplishment for 25 minutes.

2:58.2

The teachers afterwards, who were present, did say it was amazing how quiet they were.

3:05.1

To which my, maybe it was my brain was. They were just tuned out.

3:14.7

I didn't assume it was the silence of attention.

3:19.2

Anyway, I am here to report to you what I do when I speak to very young, or even not even very

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